State Committee greets expats in Tet welcome party

As the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival is days to come, the State
Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs (SCOVA) has greeted overseas
Vietnamese returning home for the holiday in an annual programme in
Hanoi.

Addressing the event, Deputy Foreign Minister and SCOVA
Chairman Nguyen Thanh Son noted an increasing number of overseas
Vietnamese going home during Tet, the nation’s biggest holiday, and
doing business, attributing it to the Politburo’s Resolution 36 and
regulations on immigration, investment, citizenship and investment.

In
the time to come, relevant agencies will legalise specific orientations
in Resolution 36 to further facilitate investment and business
activities of overseas Vietnamese, who are always regarded an
inseparable part of the Vietnamese community, Son noted.

At
the event, which focused on honouring the nation’s unique worshipping
rite of Hung Kings as part of the world’s intangible cultural heritages,
83-year-old Le Van Duyen from the US said he returned home every
Tet to enjoy warm and happy holiday.

Duyen said he is always
proud of being a Vietnamese and an offspring of Hung Kings, who are the
founders of the country and the ancestors of the nation.

Meanwhile,
Nguyen Viet Trung from Laos said around 40,000 Vietnamese residing in
Laos have made significant contributions to the host country and
helped foster its special solidarity with the homeland.

For her
part, Van Duong Thanh, an artist and art lecturer in Sweden for 25
years, unveiled that she returned home to teach and create artworks.

She
praised the SCOVA’s annual New Year welcome programme for bringing
overseas Vietnamese around the world together and providing them a
deeper insight into the country’s development course.

Thanh stressed that the overseas Vietnamese community in Sweden wished to join hands in making Vietnam more prosperous.-VNA